A three-minute read on your own week
Where your day falls apart
Homeschool days don’t collapse at random. They collapse at the same point, for the same reason, over and over, and most parents blame the kids, or themselves, instead of the shape of the day.
Read down this list and tap anything that’s true in your house this week. Be honest rather than fair.
There’s no score to be good at. This tells you where the day gives out. It doesn’t tell you you’re doing it wrong.
One more
Is there any part of the day that belongs to you?
Not after bedtime. Inside the day, while everyone is awake.
Your day gives out at
Here’s what I’m not going to do: hand you a schedule.
A schedule is what you already tried. It worked for eleven days. The problem was never the list of subjects and times, it was that nothing in the day was holding it up except you.
Over the next few weeks I’m walking through how I actually build a day that holds, one piece at a time, starting with the thing almost everyone gets wrong in the first week. I’ll send you each part as it goes up.
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